The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-04

Every man must have been struck with the
utter recklessnesS of truth and accuracy
which pervades any talk on politics l
| heard two men last night give fair exam
pie of this. 1t was in the Hoffman House,
and both of the disputants were men of
| position in the business world.
"Oh, George viii poll a, big vote will
he!' asked one of them with an ar OF IN
tense satire to the other.
Yes, he will" answered the other hotly.
"Why will hen'
Because he will.
ooh, go home and think it over for a
month. He won't poll 100 votes"
He polled 10000 last lection JUS tn
same"
"Yas he didF
| "Well, didn' her
No; he polled seven thousan' eight hun
bred an somethin'."
They glared at one another for moment
and then realizing that the disparity in
the figures was too vast to be made up that
night they turned on their heels and stalked
apart Another man in the group said
thoughtfully as the erstwhile friends dlsap-
peared:
Georges majority asreally $4,000, gem
tlemen--"
Excuse me,n interrupted another, II
happen to know that it was"
At this point the bartender produced a
little book and said with great respect;
Il have the figures here if you care to
have THENCE. 723."
I'm bet 81 900 to 500" shouted broker
in the group, that these figures are dead
wrongm
Here there was pause, and the men
shifted their feet with the air of dogs who
are anxious to jump i'll and make mince
meat of rat in pit. No one knew any
thing of importance, but they were all anx-
ious to talk. 1t is ever thus in politics, the
world is crazy to tell what it does not
know. Sometimes man possesses himself
of one fact,-be it great or small-and there
after he is a flaming menace and a terror
wherever politics crop up | knew man
once who ascertained single fact about the
size of the vote that was cast for Tilden and
starred on it for years He was finally
made School Commissioner in sheer re-
ward, and if he doesn't land in the guberna-
tofial chair in time it will be because he
cannot commit more facts to memory. L
have seen him render a group of shouting,
swearing and hot-breathed men into mani
mate and detected pulp with the
Tilden-Iowa fact without turning
hair Some man would, perhaps, lose HIM
self in flight of eloquence, and run ON:
Il tell you, gentlemen, our natures are,
our natures must be, stirred by the mag
nficent reverberations Of sentiment, the
palpitating of the heart OF the great Amerl-
can people crying from the. Gulf to
the St. Lawrence and from Maine to the
Rio Grande for Tilden."
Speaking of Tilden," the man with the
fact would interpose in hard and piping
voice, ''whad y'u think of his Iowa voter
''What do think of his Iowa vote, sir!"
the orator would ask vaguely hopping his
brow and trying to remember something
about Iowa
That's what asked, sir!" was the stern
reply.
"Why think it was-er-a-a decidedly
as it were"
"Ah, ha, sir. But its size, its size?'
~ confess that the exact"
"What? You don't known
MY recollection"
"You admit then that you are ignorant
of the vote cast for Samuel j. Tilden in
1876"
After the confession he had wrung from
the miserable man, the man with the fact
would fling it at his victim and leave him
crushed, beaten and undone
Politics is great business
BLAKELY HALL.